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...Interior chief launches a policy of compromise
...aide to then California Governor Ronald Reagan, Clark closely watched the progress of the multimillion-dollar cleanup that followed the oil-rig blowout, one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Today, as successor to the divisive James Watt in the post of Secretary of the Interior, Clark likes to recall that calamitous experience to let environmentalists know that he shares their concerns about the dangers of drilling for oil off America's shores...
...wolf. Wildlife biologists see them not as lawless, marauding killers, but as highly intelligent social creatures that are monogamous, dote on their young and howl complex messages. Still, in Minnesota's North Country, Canis lupus remains the Big Bad Wolf. Even after the Department of the Interior placed the Eastern timber wolf on the endangered species list in 1973, poaching continued at the rate of about 250 animals a year. Farmers complained of a wolf explosion and charged that the animals were ravaging cattle and other livestock. Says Wildlife Educator Karlyn Atkinson Berg of Bovey, Minn., who is known...
...coyotes. Blaming the wolf for every kill, she argues, is almost "a psychological need." Says she, with just a touch of hyperbole: "The wolf is an intelligent animal that groups together and does just what a hunter does when he gets together with his pals." Bowing to antiwolf passions, Interior authorities last summer announced a limited wolf-trapping season in which up to 160 animals a year could be taken in farming areas...
Environmental groups, including an organization called HOWL (Help Our Wolves Live), filed suit in U.S. district court challenging the Interior Department's decision. Game officials replied that by making the wolf a legitimate trophy animal again, its status would be enhanced among its human foes and, therefore, it would be regarded more highly and thus protected. Earlier this month, Judge Miles Lord vigorously rejected this convoluted argument. Said he: "The wolf has long been depicted in story and song as a mysterious menace to man's existence . . . But Congress has now mandated that each person who would slay...